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than >> dianne feinstein released a statement on the mueller of -- report. she said, >> president trump did not speak to reporters as he and melania trump left the white house aboard marine one. they will spend the easter weekend at their home at mar-a-lago. here's a look. [inaudible] >> both the house and senate judiciary committees have asked william barr to testify on the mueller report. the hearings have been set for may 1 and may 2. specific he tells including the start times for the hearings have not been released. we will show both of the hearings live on c-span3, online at c-span.org or you can listen live on the free c-span radio app. ♪ >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. friday morning, after the release of the redacted version of the mueller report, we will talk with members of congress to get their reaction. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. during the discussion -- join the discussion. >> i think it's important on this day that we continue to offer the
than >> dianne feinstein released a statement on the mueller of -- report. she said, >> president trump did not speak to reporters as he and melania trump left the white house aboard marine one. they will spend the easter weekend at their home at mar-a-lago. here's a look. [inaudible] >> both the house and senate judiciary committees have asked william barr to testify on the mueller report. the hearings have been set for may 1 and may 2. specific he tells including the start...
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mueller is leaving that decision to congress. since it has impeachment power. >> certainly mueller had the opportunity to say there waso obstruction of justice. he didn't. the question is now open for the american people to conclude. >> not only has bob mueller conclud there was in collusion. they couldn't wri up a report on obstruction. re thedent is already down in florida for the holiday weekend. that didn't stop from gathering outside the white house tonight. we have the dends. >> the lights were off in the executive mansion.t bu they were on outside along pennsylvania avenue. >> no strapger to ts spot. they're here a lot. there's a special protest. >> isn't it beautiful? >> it was all about barr. and the mueller report. >> we the people demand the full report. >> they were among those critical of the attorney general. and the redacted release of the mueller report. spring weather brought out a few spectators. >> it's more a few more people here than usual. usually one guy with that thing over there >> ones who came watched t
mueller is leaving that decision to congress. since it has impeachment power. >> certainly mueller had the opportunity to say there waso obstruction of justice. he didn't. the question is now open for the american people to conclude. >> not only has bob mueller conclud there was in collusion. they couldn't wri up a report on obstruction. re thedent is already down in florida for the holiday weekend. that didn't stop from gathering outside the white house tonight. we have the dends....
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discuss the judiciary committee subpoena of former white house counsel don mccann at what is next in the mueller report findings. we spoke with a capitol hill reporter to learn more. scott long is senior staff writer for the hill. pelosiwhy did speaker call this meeting right in the middle of the house recess? scott: this is a big deal for democrats and for congress and the entire country. this was the first gathering of house democrats after the robert mueller special counsel report was released last week. democrats and all lawmakers have been on a two week easter recess. they are scattered across the pelosi wanted to get everyone on the same page, which has been a difficult task, because you have liberal firebrands like al green and calling one democrats to pursue this all ofment path after these potential episodes of obstruction of justice, identified in the report about donald trump. on the other hand, you have the leadership, nancy pelosi and a lot of these committee chairman, like chairman another of judiciary, and elijah cummings of the oversight committee, who are saying, let's not rush
discuss the judiciary committee subpoena of former white house counsel don mccann at what is next in the mueller report findings. we spoke with a capitol hill reporter to learn more. scott long is senior staff writer for the hill. pelosiwhy did speaker call this meeting right in the middle of the house recess? scott: this is a big deal for democrats and for congress and the entire country. this was the first gathering of house democrats after the robert mueller special counsel report was...
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juliette, according to mueller letter. the mueller report. barr's letter about the mueller report says the investigation didn't establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in the election interference activity. that is really basically all that we have seen from the report. on the issue of so called collusion. there's a lot we don't know about what happened between team trump and russia. >> right. i'm so glad we're doing this. remember that is the core of why mueller was chosen. it's looking at the mandate of his when he was appointed. it is about this issue. and while i do not mean to denigrate obstruction of justice. it's key. it's a crime. i think we're focussed so much on that because of the question of why mueller decided we're forgetting we have already seen so much evidence through the cases, through media reports. pieces that we just are making no sense to. what i'm hoping for is figuring out a narrative about what russia was doing. why were meetings the you name it. and if it's fe
juliette, according to mueller letter. the mueller report. barr's letter about the mueller report says the investigation didn't establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in the election interference activity. that is really basically all that we have seen from the report. on the issue of so called collusion. there's a lot we don't know about what happened between team trump and russia. >> right. i'm so glad we're doing this. remember...
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as an independent, there is one question i want answered from mueller. wholeat is the investigation was predicated that you cannot indict a sitting president. if he was not president, would he be indicted? it sounds like there is 10 counts of obstruction of justice, and that is what the american people have to hear. that is going to determine my vote in 2020. host: sounds like you want the special counsel to testify before congress. caller: absolutely. i don't think the americans are going to be satisfied until they hear from mueller himself. he is the only guy that can be trusted. host: ok, tom. good point. let's hear from memphis, next. this is larry. memphis, tennessee. caller: how you doing? host: well, thank you. go ahead. caller: thanks for taking my call. host: sure. caller: i mean ingredients with the guy that just got on the phone. trump has all of his cronies out front telling lies and not getting to the real point of the problem. what we need to do is get mueller and some of the exactly whataying happened because every time they get almost to
as an independent, there is one question i want answered from mueller. wholeat is the investigation was predicated that you cannot indict a sitting president. if he was not president, would he be indicted? it sounds like there is 10 counts of obstruction of justice, and that is what the american people have to hear. that is going to determine my vote in 2020. host: sounds like you want the special counsel to testify before congress. caller: absolutely. i don't think the americans are going to...
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mueller report. democrats are demanding more information while republicans insist it's time to mou on. pls, this week gavin newsom mark his 100th day of california. and a pioneeringlo psychogist reveals how subtle biases can have a big effect on how we view and treat others. >>> hello, and welcome to kqed newsroom. we begin with ongoing fallout from the mueller report. investigators laid out numerous incidents where the president believes the fbi, justice department, and toho aidesd follow his orders even when they may compromise a criminal investigation. house democrats have now issued a subpoena to compel the justice departmento release to zbra congress the full unredacted report and underlying evidence by may 1st. it sets up a legal fight with attorney general william barr, who yesterday held a press conference before releasing a redacted version of the report. he reiterated his opinion that thie was no coll or obstruction of jusbyce president trump. but the reportlearly states mueller's team coul
mueller report. democrats are demanding more information while republicans insist it's time to mou on. pls, this week gavin newsom mark his 100th day of california. and a pioneeringlo psychogist reveals how subtle biases can have a big effect on how we view and treat others. >>> hello, and welcome to kqed newsroom. we begin with ongoing fallout from the mueller report. investigators laid out numerous incidents where the president believes the fbi, justice department, and toho aidesd...
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bert: the president told don mcdepaun that mueller had to go and engaged the justice department but mueller writes that other requests >> unsuccessful because other people around the prident declined. it demands more scrutiny and more testimony. >> whether these contacts were sufficiently elicit were to rise, they were dishonest, unethical, immoral and should be condemned. robert: kaitlan collins for crmp c nmp. is, yamiche alcindor, carl hulse from the "new york times" and josh dawse t from washington post. a vivid portrait. it shows the president trying th ge advisers to act on his behalf and they said n operates? w the president kaitlan: it seems related to the mueller report and happens on some many reports. and any kind of decision the president tweeting additio t. there iss run-around going around behind theces and the president is trying to get people, change his mind. so the president is seeing this and going so angry and i his being covered in cable news and going angry. is seeing how his staff sees him behind the scenesnd the very different picture and how they talk about him publ
bert: the president told don mcdepaun that mueller had to go and engaged the justice department but mueller writes that other requests >> unsuccessful because other people around the prident declined. it demands more scrutiny and more testimony. >> whether these contacts were sufficiently elicit were to rise, they were dishonest, unethical, immoral and should be condemned. robert: kaitlan collins for crmp c nmp. is, yamiche alcindor, carl hulse from the "new york times"...
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mueller report and barr. mr. mccarthy: it's not just that. you can go to any report that independents have done in the past. there's a reason why they do in -- they do not bring in the grand jury. if somebody was not indicted, why would that information go forward? the grand jury was able to look at it and go forward, so i don't see in this current situation where that would be the case -- why we would change the current law. i don't see why we would change the current law. we just went through 22 months. we found there was no collusion and no obstruction. why do they want to continue it to go forward? just because they disagree with the outcome of an election? why can't they put the public forward? if we really believe in the rule of law, let's follow the rule of law. let's not weaponize our government to go after people because they disagree with them. i think that is wrong and i don't think that's healthy. more importantly, the thing that concerns me the most is what i just saw happen on the floor of the h
mueller report and barr. mr. mccarthy: it's not just that. you can go to any report that independents have done in the past. there's a reason why they do in -- they do not bring in the grand jury. if somebody was not indicted, why would that information go forward? the grand jury was able to look at it and go forward, so i don't see in this current situation where that would be the case -- why we would change the current law. i don't see why we would change the current law. we just went through...
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mueller, i was shocked at the possibly of leaks from the mueller investigation. congress leaks all the time. i'm sorry for my fellow citizens most of whom russia is not number one or 2 on their list of concerns, the russia investigation, they will be living with this except in a worse way. rob: six democratic teachers preparing to launch an investigation to determine whether the president obstructed justice. time for you to weigh in. what do you hope to see with this investigation going forward? send your comments on facebook, twitter, instagram, send us an email, everyone will share your responses in the next hour, we want to see what should congress do? jillian: 10 minutes until the top of the hour. the media melting down over the mueller report. >> i find william barr's behavior inappropriate. he is defending the president. >> we see a reduction. >> is this what i am seeing? rob: at the press conference and the decision to not charge obstruction. are those criticisms fair? we debate next. - in a crossfit gym, we're really engaged with who we are as people and
mueller, i was shocked at the possibly of leaks from the mueller investigation. congress leaks all the time. i'm sorry for my fellow citizens most of whom russia is not number one or 2 on their list of concerns, the russia investigation, they will be living with this except in a worse way. rob: six democratic teachers preparing to launch an investigation to determine whether the president obstructed justice. time for you to weigh in. what do you hope to see with this investigation going...
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mueller marshals the evidence. and why trump's defenses don't stand up. >> do you think that's the only reason he didn't take the next step for recommending a charge on that was because of the olc guidelines? >> that was my read. my read is that if donald trump or the attorney general of the united states, rather than the president of the united states, he would have already been indicted. >> you also, max, in your "washington post" opinion column, you say the report does not absolve the trump campaign of collusion. >> right. >> that's, i mean, that's -- >> barr was being highly deceptive there because, in fact, he said no collusion repeatedly. when you actually read the report, mueller specifically says we did not consider the issue of collusion. >> right. it's conspiracy. >> in terms of collusion, the mueller report finds numerous contacts between the trump campaign and the russians. it finds that donald trump knew in advance about the release of wikileaks documents, and it shows that there was a -- there was, in
mueller marshals the evidence. and why trump's defenses don't stand up. >> do you think that's the only reason he didn't take the next step for recommending a charge on that was because of the olc guidelines? >> that was my read. my read is that if donald trump or the attorney general of the united states, rather than the president of the united states, he would have already been indicted. >> you also, max, in your "washington post" opinion column, you say the report...
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robert mueller? caller: i don't have an exact date but i would expect it to be soon. i know that people want to hear from him. we note that his intentions were completely distorted by the attorney general when you read the report. is omitting substantial evidence of attempts by the president. him whoe people around saved him from his own attempts to obstruct justice. and yet, the attorney general reportas -- the mueller as some kind of exoneration to get a jump on the news. it was a propaganda ploy that the attorney general conducted and he disgraced himself and he disgraced the legal procession by acting in this way. host: and then the attorney general, do you expect another appearance of him in front of your committee? >> yes. i believe he is scheduled to come in on may the second. i believe there will be aggressive questioning about this propaganda rollout of the special counsel's report. host: there have always been questions leading to the topic of impeachment of this president. do you think tho
robert mueller? caller: i don't have an exact date but i would expect it to be soon. i know that people want to hear from him. we note that his intentions were completely distorted by the attorney general when you read the report. is omitting substantial evidence of attempts by the president. him whoe people around saved him from his own attempts to obstruct justice. and yet, the attorney general reportas -- the mueller as some kind of exoneration to get a jump on the news. it was a propaganda...
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this is on mueller. and stressing that barr is working with mueller on appropriate redactions to the report so that it can be released to congress and the public. notice that basically when barr is facing this reported criticism from mueller's team, today in that new statement, barr is name checking mueller. seeming to both blame him for these decisions that we do know barr made. he is is the boss. he comes out today and seems to blame mueller for these decisions. but then he also hugs mueller as a source of authority and credibility for this coming redaction fight. now, i don't have all the answers for you. i never do. i tell you what we know and what we don't know. for whatever reason, i don't know the reason tonight. but for whatever reason, bill barr wants you and everyone to know, hey, i'm still working with mueller. even as he also disputes these reports that he overrode mueller to the great concern of mueller's team. and that brings us here to the final splinter tonight. while barr invokes mueller
this is on mueller. and stressing that barr is working with mueller on appropriate redactions to the report so that it can be released to congress and the public. notice that basically when barr is facing this reported criticism from mueller's team, today in that new statement, barr is name checking mueller. seeming to both blame him for these decisions that we do know barr made. he is is the boss. he comes out today and seems to blame mueller for these decisions. but then he also hugs mueller...
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mueller did a great job. now it's up to us and that committee judiciary to do our job which is to look into the report. i want to hear from mueller himself, what happened, what he found out. i want to find out from mr. barr what is it that led him to come up with that four page conclusion. you know why? the american public needs to know what actually happened, what these folks came up with. >> what would make you support -- i could ask it either way, what would make you support a resolution for impeachment to begin the proceedings, the house has to vote for a resolution to begin the proceedings, not to vote on whether he's guilty or not or to impeach him or not but to begin the proceedings, what would get you to do that, what in this story line that would develop that would say to you, okay, i'm for resolution to beginning the proceeding? >> i think the mueller report was a road map to get there. we just have to make sure that we look at the facts and that the facts are there to to substantiate an impeachment
mueller did a great job. now it's up to us and that committee judiciary to do our job which is to look into the report. i want to hear from mueller himself, what happened, what he found out. i want to find out from mr. barr what is it that led him to come up with that four page conclusion. you know why? the american public needs to know what actually happened, what these folks came up with. >> what would make you support -- i could ask it either way, what would make you support a...
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the full mueller report. release the full mueller report. >> senator richard blumenthal speaking in washington today at one of the several hundred protests that happened around the country today. this afternoon and this evening, protests calling for the release of the mueller report. 13 days now since it was completed by robert mueller and handed in to the office of trump's newly appointed attorney general, and it hasn't been seen since. there were protests today in washington, d.c. there were protests in new york city. good sized protests in new york city. there were protests in chicago and philadelphia and raleigh, north carolina, and albuquerque, new mexico, protests from denver to boston to st. paul, minnesota, to languahorn, pennsylvania. and it's interesting, these are not policy protests. this is not an interest group that is fighting for more attention to its cause which is sometimes what you see in coordinated nationwide protests, where people protest at hundreds of different sites. what these protes
the full mueller report. release the full mueller report. >> senator richard blumenthal speaking in washington today at one of the several hundred protests that happened around the country today. this afternoon and this evening, protests calling for the release of the mueller report. 13 days now since it was completed by robert mueller and handed in to the office of trump's newly appointed attorney general, and it hasn't been seen since. there were protests today in washington, d.c. there...
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that may himself.in mueller your thoughts? rep. moulton: this is another place where i agree -- i disagree with the party. i voted with a minority of democrats last year to start moving on impeachment proceedings. even last year there was ample lab beds -- ample evidence that the president and his associates committed crimes. the mueller report through this investigation has already indicted over 30 of the president's close associates and friends. his campaign chairman is in prison right now, while we are eating breakfast. so don't tell me there is not enough to discuss about impeachment. i think our party made a mistake foraiting until now, hoping smoking cannon or something in the mueller report, before starting this debate. congress does two things, we debate things and we vote on them. the debate is important, and we should have started the debate a while ago. i don't think the time is now for a vote, because we still don't even have all the evidence, we still don't have ll mueller report, but we should have started this d
that may himself.in mueller your thoughts? rep. moulton: this is another place where i agree -- i disagree with the party. i voted with a minority of democrats last year to start moving on impeachment proceedings. even last year there was ample lab beds -- ample evidence that the president and his associates committed crimes. the mueller report through this investigation has already indicted over 30 of the president's close associates and friends. his campaign chairman is in prison right now,...
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the mueller report? >> well, i think first of all, we want to give the special counsel mueller the opportunity to state what i think is completely pervasive in his report which is that the ball is in congress's court. it's up to congress to decide. he didn't kick it upstairs to the attorney general to declare there was no obstruction. on the contrary, he laid out ten episodes of attempted obstruction or obstruction by the president and basically said the congress, you go and do your job right now. so we'd like to hear him say that. i think. look, the global backdrop here is important. there is rising authoritarianism around the world, lots of efforts to interfere where people's democratic elections and human rights and russia interfered in our election and we can't have countries interfering in each other's elections. we need some kind of international treaty on that and also need to fortify our own state electoral systems. we have a very vulnerable and decentralized system with 51 different election pro
the mueller report? >> well, i think first of all, we want to give the special counsel mueller the opportunity to state what i think is completely pervasive in his report which is that the ball is in congress's court. it's up to congress to decide. he didn't kick it upstairs to the attorney general to declare there was no obstruction. on the contrary, he laid out ten episodes of attempted obstruction or obstruction by the president and basically said the congress, you go and do your job...
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what do you see is significant about the way democrats are taking mueller's findings and mueller's admittedly intricate discussion of the interbranch powers and who deals with this. >> i hate to agree with you, ari, but you're right. this report, over 400 pages long, does take more than a day to absorb fully. i've written a couple stories off it already. i'm still going through it line by line through footnotes, looking for things i might have missed or that need further amplification. i think if you're running congress, if you're the chair of the judiciary committee, or the intelligence committee, or the oversight committee. you need to go through this really carefully and see what here can we look at further, needs further investigation. what can we amplify for the public. there is a lot here, if you actually had people coming before committees to testify, it would mean a lot more. hearing don mcgahn talk about how he had to put off what he considered to be improper, illegal instructions from the president would be really instructive for the public at large. so i think taking a moment to fi
what do you see is significant about the way democrats are taking mueller's findings and mueller's admittedly intricate discussion of the interbranch powers and who deals with this. >> i hate to agree with you, ari, but you're right. this report, over 400 pages long, does take more than a day to absorb fully. i've written a couple stories off it already. i'm still going through it line by line through footnotes, looking for things i might have missed or that need further amplification. i...
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mueller report. perhaps you are old enough to remember when it totally exonerated him. today he says the information fabricated, total b-s, now vowing to, quote, bring justice to some very sick and dangerous people. plus, on the night after, what are the most striking revelations in the mueller document? we have two former u.s. attorneys and two pulitzer prize winning journalists to tell us what they think has been underreported. and the parts of the mueller report that russia is studying and how it might provide a roadmap for other adversaries as "the 11th hour" gets under way on this friday night. ♪ >>> and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 820 of the trump administration. the mueller report has now had a day to sink in, and whatever the president has been told about it, he doesn't seem to like it. the president had been claiming total exoneration because his attorney general had given him air cover to do so, but now that the report is out trump is going
mueller report. perhaps you are old enough to remember when it totally exonerated him. today he says the information fabricated, total b-s, now vowing to, quote, bring justice to some very sick and dangerous people. plus, on the night after, what are the most striking revelations in the mueller document? we have two former u.s. attorneys and two pulitzer prize winning journalists to tell us what they think has been underreported. and the parts of the mueller report that russia is studying and...
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that is how we should be the mueller report. i am happy to go to your questions. there are sections that are redacted in the report, some that clearly go to fax that are acts that are not being presented to the public that would reveal additional contacts between the russians and the term campaign. -- the trump campaign. other sections are completely redacted. when the special counsel looked at the evidence of conspiracy on these particular incidents, and it particular vis-a-vis the contact between the trump campaign and wikileaks, the sections on the exercise of judgment, whether the special counsel concluded that the council did had been largely reductive? we need to know -- rejected? -- largely redirected? redacted? -- we need to know. as a special counsel makes clear on the report. the counterintelligence findings are not completely included in this report. fbi in fact they were agents embedded in the special counsel's team who was looking at the issue of compromiser counterintelligence. some of that information is not included. others are included but redacte
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mueller. if he puts a toe in the conspiracy pool with rod rosenstein standing next to him who signed the reauthorizations for carter page who are the source of the conspiracy theories, it will be another human drama to what has already been. we are talking about barr today, not mueller. and mueller is the man who has done the work. mueller is the man with integrity and credibility. and mueller is the man who after 22 months explicitly did not exonerate donald trump on the question of obstruction. what we should be talking about is why not. why not. a former national security official said to me today, if there is even a reference to the trump campaign unwittingly aiding the russian effort to interfere, that should be the banner headline, and we didn't spend enough time contemplating the narrowness of mueller's question. mueller's question around russian collusion wasn't whether or not it happened. it was whether or not donald trump wittingly participated in it. so we could be at the brink of t
mueller. if he puts a toe in the conspiracy pool with rod rosenstein standing next to him who signed the reauthorizations for carter page who are the source of the conspiracy theories, it will be another human drama to what has already been. we are talking about barr today, not mueller. and mueller is the man who has done the work. mueller is the man with integrity and credibility. and mueller is the man who after 22 months explicitly did not exonerate donald trump on the question of...
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chris: there's another alternative explanation which mueller makes, and mueller's explanation is two days earlier -- sir -- the report has come out in the paper that now mueller is investigating him for obstruction of justice and for the first time in this investigation, for the first time the president directly is a target of the investigation. >> chris, what you're doing is you're taking the mueller report which is a prosecutor's version of what happened, you're giving it full credit, and and you're not giving me a chance to explain the other side which is very, very strong and was left out by the prosecutor. i think's unfair in a case of this magnitude, not to tell the other side. chris: i'm asking you about the other side. >> but you're not giving me a chance to answer it. chris: we don't need to talk about james comey. >> it's two or three pages of lies and distortion, it takes a little while. for example -- chris: you think that's what the report is, lies and distortion? >> in certain respects. everything written and attributed to cohen is not true -- chris: i'm not talking abo
chris: there's another alternative explanation which mueller makes, and mueller's explanation is two days earlier -- sir -- the report has come out in the paper that now mueller is investigating him for obstruction of justice and for the first time in this investigation, for the first time the president directly is a target of the investigation. >> chris, what you're doing is you're taking the mueller report which is a prosecutor's version of what happened, you're giving it full credit,...
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the reaction to the mueller report. a closer look at a key take away after page -- the president's take on twitter. quoting now statements are made about me by certain people in the crazy mueller report. written by 18 angry democrat trump haters which are fabricated and untrue. watch out for people that take so called notes when the notes never existed until needed because i never agreed to testify. it was not necessary to respond to statements made in the report. about me. some of which are total bs and given to me if the other person look good or me look bad. this was an illegally started hoax that never should have happened. and continuing with this tweet. a big fat waste of time. energy and money. $30 million to be exact. it's time to turn the tables from very sick and dangerous people who committed very serious crimes. maybe spying and treason. this should never happen again. here with us for the latest on all that tonight and more. cnn chief white house correspondent. >> it took the president nine hours to finish
the reaction to the mueller report. a closer look at a key take away after page -- the president's take on twitter. quoting now statements are made about me by certain people in the crazy mueller report. written by 18 angry democrat trump haters which are fabricated and untrue. watch out for people that take so called notes when the notes never existed until needed because i never agreed to testify. it was not necessary to respond to statements made in the report. about me. some of which are...
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. >>> the breaking news tonight is that the mueller report is out. the investigation paints a portrait of a president convinced at one point his presidency was over. a campaign swimming in russians who were wishing to help get trump elected and the campaign hoping to benefit. the report outlines ten instances of potential obstruction by the president, singles out several aides who refused to carry out his orders, and we learned today the president now clearly has his man at the justice department as the attorney general publicly takes one for the team. >>> and for mueller's part, he's leaving it to congress to proceed from here as "the 11th hour" gets under way on this important thursday night. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 819 of this trump administration and this was a big one. we now have the redacted mueller report, weighing in at over 400 pages. we have learned a lot today. we learned, among other things, that the president finally has an attorney general who definitively has his back. we
. >>> the breaking news tonight is that the mueller report is out. the investigation paints a portrait of a president convinced at one point his presidency was over. a campaign swimming in russians who were wishing to help get trump elected and the campaign hoping to benefit. the report outlines ten instances of potential obstruction by the president, singles out several aides who refused to carry out his orders, and we learned today the president now clearly has his man at the justice...
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you can see from mueller's report, who cares what word we use, mueller was investigating the president of the united states personally and he had a lot, a lot of evidence about all these obstruckive episodes. so clearly rosenstein is trying to calm the president by getting him attached to this bureaucratic jargon that at the end of the day doesn't mean much. i'm sure defenders would say that's so he would lay off the probe. his detractors would say he knew this was the way it was going to go and it was rigged in some way. >> jeremy bash joins us by phone. if you take matt's excellent reporting and mash it up against the result, the word he just used, rigged, you can't help but ask the question. we're not making that allegation, nobody is. it certainly calls into question, if rod rosenstein assured the president at the end of september 2018, that he, as the man -- the one man overseeing the plumueller probe his office was the one office at main doj through which any information from robert mueller flowed. and that went on for days and weeks before robert mueller finished interviewing wi
you can see from mueller's report, who cares what word we use, mueller was investigating the president of the united states personally and he had a lot, a lot of evidence about all these obstruckive episodes. so clearly rosenstein is trying to calm the president by getting him attached to this bureaucratic jargon that at the end of the day doesn't mean much. i'm sure defenders would say that's so he would lay off the probe. his detractors would say he knew this was the way it was going to go...
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mueller. here's what the president said about it at the time. >> did you seek to fire robert mueller? >> fake news, folks. fake news. >> what's your message? >> typical "new york times" fake stories. >> not fake. true. the person dispensing with the person offering fake news, president trump. >> yeah, exactly. i mean, you know, the president threw a lot of these stories, not just this one, started calling them fake news. and here they are detailed, chapter and verse, in the mueller report. and again, i want to emphasis, these are people who were testifying under oath, not talking to journalists. where you don't have to take an oath. but testifying under oath, and even today, in the president's tweet, he's saying the same thing. he's saying it's total bs. these people, don mcgahn in particular, are lying. but when you look at the level of detail in the mueller report, where the president calls in don mcgahn and said i never said that to you, and don mcgahn says, yes, you did. you told me to cal
mueller. here's what the president said about it at the time. >> did you seek to fire robert mueller? >> fake news, folks. fake news. >> what's your message? >> typical "new york times" fake stories. >> not fake. true. the person dispensing with the person offering fake news, president trump. >> yeah, exactly. i mean, you know, the president threw a lot of these stories, not just this one, started calling them fake news. and here they are detailed,...
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on most of the episodes the mueller team. it's stronger than people are saying. >> because of the olc letter and guidelines here. the only remedy for that if that is the case is political. >> it is. what we're seeing it passing of the baton from the law enforcement. to political leadership. law enforcement is conducted an investigation and completed it. compiled a report and hand it over. it goes to the attorney general and congress. it's up to congress to make the determination. what's laid out in here although miller doesn't come to the conclusion the president will be prosecutored perhaps of his position. that doesn't mean that that doesn't reach a threshold of congress. you can still have obstructive behavior that congress find concerning that doesn't mean a threshold of prosecution under federal statute. that's what we're in. you had a congressman about what's down the road for them. the democrats in the house have conversation to have with themselves. that is the remedy if they're going to take the report and do somethi
on most of the episodes the mueller team. it's stronger than people are saying. >> because of the olc letter and guidelines here. the only remedy for that if that is the case is political. >> it is. what we're seeing it passing of the baton from the law enforcement. to political leadership. law enforcement is conducted an investigation and completed it. compiled a report and hand it over. it goes to the attorney general and congress. it's up to congress to make the determination....
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mueller did say to barr that he thought that was not, it did not accurately convey all the sense of the report and suggested later in the follow-up call that mueller should release the executive summaries of the report. what justice officials tell me is what is similar to what the attorney general said publicly about this. number one, he could not release the executive summaries because at the top of every page and you see it if you look in the mueller report, this may contain grand jury information which can't be disclosed legally. he said to the special counsel staff, i can't tell what the grand jury material is and secondly, his concern was that he didn't want to release the report piece meal. that was his response and of course we know now that we have all seen the report and we can judge for ourselves whether the attorney general accurately characterized it in the letter or not. he didn't think his letter was accurate. >> what about the argument that he's thought the context was delivered wr
mueller did say to barr that he thought that was not, it did not accurately convey all the sense of the report and suggested later in the follow-up call that mueller should release the executive summaries of the report. what justice officials tell me is what is similar to what the attorney general said publicly about this. number one, he could not release the executive summaries because at the top of every page and you see it if you look in the mueller report, this may contain grand jury...
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burke are not talking about mueller. you said mueller was god now you're saying she is guilty. >> i'm missing she's guilty but there is a difference there is overwhelming evidence she actually obstructed justice she denied the investigators the information nothing was denied to them and in the report they said they didn't have to question him because they had the answers to all the questions right there in the report. chris: they also said the answers were inadequate and also a subpoena would take a longer period of time. >> my client will not stretch out for the prosecutor to nail them like they went after that general and his wife they should be ashamed of themselves. chris: thank you for sharing your holiday weekend with us. >> happy passover. >> you are one heck of a lawyer. >> you are one heck of an interview or. [laughter] chris: adam schiff the democratic chair promising to continue to investigate the president but will that lead to impeachment? y pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
burke are not talking about mueller. you said mueller was god now you're saying she is guilty. >> i'm missing she's guilty but there is a difference there is overwhelming evidence she actually obstructed justice she denied the investigators the information nothing was denied to them and in the report they said they didn't have to question him because they had the answers to all the questions right there in the report. chris: they also said the answers were inadequate and also a subpoena...
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mueller has completed his work. he's completed his report, after all that happened, last week the reporters committee for freedom of the press, they went back to court to try to clean this thing up once and for all, right? because you think this might be the point where they could finally get this settled. they could finally lift the mystery here and tell all of us, the american public what this whole fight has been about and who the players are in this part of the investigation. it seemed clear going into that court hearing on this case late last week that finally, the mystery would be solved, right? mueller's investigation we've been told is done. we would assume that means that the grand jury mueller had convened that issued the subpoena to the mystery company, we would also assume that they are now done with their grand jury investigation as well, right? so they would no longer need whatever information they would have been trying to get from this company. so this thing is moot now, right? we can figure out who
mueller has completed his work. he's completed his report, after all that happened, last week the reporters committee for freedom of the press, they went back to court to try to clean this thing up once and for all, right? because you think this might be the point where they could finally get this settled. they could finally lift the mystery here and tell all of us, the american public what this whole fight has been about and who the players are in this part of the investigation. it seemed...
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he then ends up in the redacted mueller report being cited more than 150 times as mueller methodically goes through all these instances in which the president appears to have obstructed justice. and that ends up being hugely important for two reasons. number one, we get mcgahn's testimony, we get all these narrative facts about all these times the president allegedly obstructed justice while in office. we'll have more on that in just a second. in fact, we'll have more on that over the course of the next year, more than you think. but that moment with them clearing don mcgahn to go talk to mueller, it also ends up being critically important for the way the scandal is ultimately going to resolve overall, because, oops, when the white house cleared don mcgahn to go to the special counsel, to go to mueller's office and talk about everything he saw and participated in and heard while he was in the white house, when the white house, oops, cleared him to go do that, to convey that information without restrictions to robert mueller and his investigators in the special counsel's office, there i
he then ends up in the redacted mueller report being cited more than 150 times as mueller methodically goes through all these instances in which the president appears to have obstructed justice. and that ends up being hugely important for two reasons. number one, we get mcgahn's testimony, we get all these narrative facts about all these times the president allegedly obstructed justice while in office. we'll have more on that in just a second. in fact, we'll have more on that over the course of...
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big secrets buried in the redacted mueller report. more than a dozen mystery cases referred or spun off by special counsel. who are the targets? >>> and left hanging. president trump goes on a twitter tear against what he calls the crazy mueller report, stopping mid-sentence before resuming his rant nine hours later. mr. trump distracted and in attack mode as americans digest all of mueller's damaging evidence against it. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf
big secrets buried in the redacted mueller report. more than a dozen mystery cases referred or spun off by special counsel. who are the targets? >>> and left hanging. president trump goes on a twitter tear against what he calls the crazy mueller report, stopping mid-sentence before resuming his rant nine hours later. mr. trump distracted and in attack mode as americans digest all of mueller's damaging evidence against it. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around...
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this is a summary of what mueller said and no, you can't see what mueller actually said. i'm going to hold a press conference telling you what to think about it. you can't see for yourself what it is so you can come to your own conclusions. he likes how this is going to be portrayed down the line when he's written about attorney general in a long line of them. presumably the only person he's writing for is the president himself and why he feels like that's the man he needs to please here, that's for him to say. >> we are now less than 12 hours from hearing from the attorney general. so where does the investigation of the president of the united states stand tonight? tonight? as the breaking news about the release of the redacted version of the mueller report has been cascading this evening, news upon news. that's the question i answer at the end of this hour. the question of where do we stand tonight after we deal with all this breaking news happening earlier in the hour. now, it may seem like the end of a story because it appears to be the end of the mueller investigatio
this is a summary of what mueller said and no, you can't see what mueller actually said. i'm going to hold a press conference telling you what to think about it. you can't see for yourself what it is so you can come to your own conclusions. he likes how this is going to be portrayed down the line when he's written about attorney general in a long line of them. presumably the only person he's writing for is the president himself and why he feels like that's the man he needs to please here,...
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firing mueller -- >> he had the perfect right to fire mueller. mueller, at that time, he had several good reasons to fire mueller. mueller had substantial conflicts of intert, he had hired a staff so prejudiced it shocked any prosecutor who was there. he hired the chief counsel to to the clinfoundation to investigate donald trump. my god. if i were investigating hillary clintoand hired the person who ran the trump foundation, i think the media'd go nuts on me. that would a legitimate reason to fire mueller for very, very bad ju pment. he's tsident of the united states. mueller is not an independent counsel. he works for the justice department. he could have been fired at any moment. unless you could show he wasn'tp going toce him with t somebodyo take over like comey, you had no obstruction. he could h>>e fired him. you don't believe that mcghan saved president? that saved him from an obstruction of justice charge -- >> no. in one circumstance, down month -- in one circumstance, don mcghan gives three versions of the truth, and the pounds uses an
firing mueller -- >> he had the perfect right to fire mueller. mueller, at that time, he had several good reasons to fire mueller. mueller had substantial conflicts of intert, he had hired a staff so prejudiced it shocked any prosecutor who was there. he hired the chief counsel to to the clinfoundation to investigate donald trump. my god. if i were investigating hillary clintoand hired the person who ran the trump foundation, i think the media'd go nuts on me. that would a legitimate...
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and mueller does neither. as then as we'll be talking about over the next couple of hours, the report paints a devastating picture of the president. i have heard eleanor and people like that say the public isn't behind this or something. but that's because i think of this barr pre-spin press conference and his four page memo earlier. now the public has this long report before it. and i think mueller bet on the public. he bet on the faith of the public that they will read this report. they will look at it. they will look through these devastating details about what the president has done and the president has gotten away with a lot of stuff for the last two years from charlottesville to taxes to trade and lying and all that. here you have people, witnesses, including the president's staunch allies like his white house counsel, implicating the president in the commission of crimes. it will be much harder for him to dismiss. i think there is only one course of action for the congress to take ultimately, and it is
and mueller does neither. as then as we'll be talking about over the next couple of hours, the report paints a devastating picture of the president. i have heard eleanor and people like that say the public isn't behind this or something. but that's because i think of this barr pre-spin press conference and his four page memo earlier. now the public has this long report before it. and i think mueller bet on the public. he bet on the faith of the public that they will read this report. they will...
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here's what mueller said, john. this office accepted olc's legal conclusion for the purpose of exercising prosecutorial jurisdiction. >> that's black and white. >> correct. >> it's black and white. to the other one we mentioned, i don't know if you have other graphics you want to put up, but the super striking was this notion that he and rod rosenstein came down on the obstruction issue that trump had not obstructed justice, the whole second volume of the report is a chronicle of noncooperation, starting with he didn't agree to an interview, but the times he tried to fire mueller, get people to lie to mueller. yet barr said yesterday the dispositive issue on the obstruction issue was the full cooperation of the white house that donald trump gave him. there's at least four or five other examples that are just outright lies. and i think it raises the question of why. barr is not a stupid man. right. he knew that the lies would be called out and called out quickly. what is the strategic thing driving him? >> i complete
here's what mueller said, john. this office accepted olc's legal conclusion for the purpose of exercising prosecutorial jurisdiction. >> that's black and white. >> correct. >> it's black and white. to the other one we mentioned, i don't know if you have other graphics you want to put up, but the super striking was this notion that he and rod rosenstein came down on the obstruction issue that trump had not obstructed justice, the whole second volume of the report is a chronicle...
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>> rudy: are not got about mueller. >> chris: who made mueller god, now you're declaring whether she was guilty or not. >> rudy: i'm saying there's a difference -- i'm just saying there's a difference -- i'm not saying she's guilty. the differences there is overwhelming evidence that you actually obstructed justice. she denied the investigators the information. nothing was denied to them. by the way, in the report they say they didn't have to question him because they had the answers to all the questions. write in the report. >> chris: they also see the answers were inadequate and they also said that to go through a subpoena was going to take a prolonged period of time. >> rudy: if my client has an unclear recollection, i'm not going to go stretch out for the prosecutor so the prosecutor can mail them -- >> chris: mayor giuliani -- >> rudy: like the one after that great general and ruin his life and bankrupted him. they should be ashamed of them selves. >> chris: mayor julie article thank you, thanks for sharing your holiday weekend with us. >> rudy: happy passover. >> chris: if you
>> rudy: are not got about mueller. >> chris: who made mueller god, now you're declaring whether she was guilty or not. >> rudy: i'm saying there's a difference -- i'm just saying there's a difference -- i'm not saying she's guilty. the differences there is overwhelming evidence that you actually obstructed justice. she denied the investigators the information. nothing was denied to them. by the way, in the report they say they didn't have to question him because they had the...
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team also talking about the mueller report itself as the crazy mueller report. the president talks about notes as has been discussed in the part of the report where there were people around the president, including don mcgahn former white house counsel who took notes and described to the president the importance of taking notes. the president in his tweet talking about never trusting people with notes. he said, what is being said about him is an expletive and the president has resorted to that at times when he's really frustrated. we have only seen publicly from the president speaking on camera in a couple of sentences at a wounded warriors event at the white house where the setting and the timing was different. in the hours that have transpired and the opportunity for the president to watch a lot of cable and to perhaps be briefed on more of the report, we don't yet know if he is himself read the pages. this anger is coming out. also, in defense of the president coming from sarah sanders who described at times through the report, as well, where she is taking is
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robert mueller? caller: i don't have an exact date but i would expect it to be soon. i know that people want to hear from him. we note that his intentions were completely distorted by the attorney general when you read the report. is omitting substantial evidence of attempts by the president. him whoe people around saved him from his own attempts to obstruct justice. and yet, the attorney general reportas -- the mueller as some kind of exoneration to get a jump on the news. it was a propaganda ploy that the attorney general conducted and he disgraced himself and he disgraced the legal procession by acting in this way. host: and then the attorney general, do you expect another appearance of him in front of your committee? >> yes. i believe he is scheduled to come in on may the second. i believe there will be aggressive questioning about this propaganda rollout of the special counsel's report. host: there have always been questions leading to the topic of impeachment of this president. do you think tho
robert mueller? caller: i don't have an exact date but i would expect it to be soon. i know that people want to hear from him. we note that his intentions were completely distorted by the attorney general when you read the report. is omitting substantial evidence of attempts by the president. him whoe people around saved him from his own attempts to obstruct justice. and yet, the attorney general reportas -- the mueller as some kind of exoneration to get a jump on the news. it was a propaganda...
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and just the way i know robert mueller. the smoking gun it would have been clear and compelling evidence of that criminal cuhe held up short. >> the road map to for congress to potentially pursue an obstruction case. which he references as he makes it clear. it's also potential future road map for a prosecutor to handle once the president leaves office. the president despite exonerated by mueller and all fronts. that's not true. and the president wants out of office. if the charges held up could be in a court of law defending himself on that. >> well, that's right. i think the mueller report obviously goes boo that detail to explain why the president was is not in a position to adequately defend himself. in while he's in office. and that's debate about that. the fact is that he could be charged and maybe charged when he's no longer president. there's statute of limitations questions. if he's reelected. >> five years. >> right. so those are all issues that will be taken into consideration. my stance is that will be much more
and just the way i know robert mueller. the smoking gun it would have been clear and compelling evidence of that criminal cuhe held up short. >> the road map to for congress to potentially pursue an obstruction case. which he references as he makes it clear. it's also potential future road map for a prosecutor to handle once the president leaves office. the president despite exonerated by mueller and all fronts. that's not true. and the president wants out of office. if the charges held...
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mueller mueller, we're not talking about health care, we're not talking about raising minimum wage to living wage. what i am worried about is that works to trump's advantage. >> we have to be realistic what might be the end result, that doesn't mean the process should not take hold. >> a divided 2020 field on display over the i word. as the candidates navigate how to stand out, after months of speculation, joe biden, former vice president, is expected to announce his candidacy thursday morning with a video. he will then appear at an event in pittsburgh monday. i agree with kamala harris and elizabeth warren. and bernie sanders, walk and chew gum. >> i think the democrats have been woefully unprepared for this moment, they really have. the level of disorganization as i was saying during the break, the speaker being overseas, it is clear that even the house democratic chairmen aren't coordinated on the message, i think they missed the moment and the narrative. i think you'll see democratic presidential candidates, rip the bandaid off now you. the inevitable is coming, there will be a vo
mueller mueller, we're not talking about health care, we're not talking about raising minimum wage to living wage. what i am worried about is that works to trump's advantage. >> we have to be realistic what might be the end result, that doesn't mean the process should not take hold. >> a divided 2020 field on display over the i word. as the candidates navigate how to stand out, after months of speculation, joe biden, former vice president, is expected to announce his candidacy...
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the first post-mueller report subpoena of a major mueller witness, this is mueller's star witness, don mcgahn. jerry nadler calling him to testify before the house. mcgahn's interviews with the special counsel cited 157 times in the mueller report as mcgahn detailed some of the most damning efforts of trump's efforts to crack down on the probe. he is now being compared with nixon's famous white house counsel who famously broke with nixon during watergate. mueller recounts mcgahn was afraid that trump's demands to fire mueller would be a massacre like nixon when the special prosecutor was ousted. that was the beginning of the end of nixon's presidency. to discuss this white house counsel's unique role in the mueller probe and beyond, i turn to kathy ruemmler, white house council to president obama. she also in all of this represented a mueller witness, george nader. thank you so much for being here. >> thanks, ari. it's great to be here. >> when you read the account of don mcgahn's time in the white house, was that similar, normal like your time? >> absolutely not, no. >> do you ever re
the first post-mueller report subpoena of a major mueller witness, this is mueller's star witness, don mcgahn. jerry nadler calling him to testify before the house. mcgahn's interviews with the special counsel cited 157 times in the mueller report as mcgahn detailed some of the most damning efforts of trump's efforts to crack down on the probe. he is now being compared with nixon's famous white house counsel who famously broke with nixon during watergate. mueller recounts mcgahn was afraid that...
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>> mueller's got him? >> i think the mueller team knows a lot about the trump organization's finances and talk about another thing congress needs to see and has the right to get. >> how is this going to end? you are on ways and means, president trump just said an irs audit was preventing the release of his tax returns. let's watch. >> while we are working on that. i have big returns and everything all approved and very beautiful and we will be working on that. you don't learn much from tax returns. i would love to give them, but i can't do it until i am done with the audit. >> you don't release your returns when the audit is complete. when the audit is complete, i'll do it. >> as for the former fixer, michael cohen was asked about the refusal to release his tax returns. >> can you give us insight into what the real reason is that the president has refused to release his tax returns? >> statements that he said to me that what he didn't want was to have an entire group of think tanks that are tax experts run
>> mueller's got him? >> i think the mueller team knows a lot about the trump organization's finances and talk about another thing congress needs to see and has the right to get. >> how is this going to end? you are on ways and means, president trump just said an irs audit was preventing the release of his tax returns. let's watch. >> while we are working on that. i have big returns and everything all approved and very beautiful and we will be working on that. you don't...
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mueller did his job. and he has been vindicated by the report, by mueller, by barr, and the american people are tired of the chaotic way that the democrats have continued to attack-- >> clearly we're not going to get off the talking points. let's move on to the bore he der. department of homeloversee. top tier leadership is in turmoil this week, in many instances without senior leaders. are you uneasy about the situation and what are you planning to do about it? >> well, fortunately, i've gone to the border with the president, with other congressional leaders, it is a state of chaos. we are being overrun, it is a situation where caravans are coming in. gillian: what about the department of homeland security that you oversee, congressman? >> well, i don't oversee it i understand under the submarine committee of appropriations. they're doing the best job they can based on the magnitude of this crisis. we talked about the mueller report. the american people want us to focus on border security, on the economy
mueller did his job. and he has been vindicated by the report, by mueller, by barr, and the american people are tired of the chaotic way that the democrats have continued to attack-- >> clearly we're not going to get off the talking points. let's move on to the bore he der. department of homeloversee. top tier leadership is in turmoil this week, in many instances without senior leaders. are you uneasy about the situation and what are you planning to do about it? >> well,...
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report before anyone has seen the mueller report. fevered speculation tonight as we appear to be inside the 12-hour window prior to its release. >>> democrats are saying it's telling that mueller won't be alongside his long time friend the attorney general tomorrow. we may in fact hear from the president before the report is out. both sides tonight conceding it will likely contain information damaging to the president. the big question this evening how much will be blacked out, how much will be learn, and what will be talking about by this time tomorrow night? as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a wednesday evening, the eve of the mueller report. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 818 of this trump administration. the eve as we said of the long awaited release of at least the edited or redacted version of the mueller report, the result of 22 months worth of work, 22 months worth of public conversation and public speculation. attorney general barr will be holding as we said that new
report before anyone has seen the mueller report. fevered speculation tonight as we appear to be inside the 12-hour window prior to its release. >>> democrats are saying it's telling that mueller won't be alongside his long time friend the attorney general tomorrow. we may in fact hear from the president before the report is out. both sides tonight conceding it will likely contain information damaging to the president. the big question this evening how much will be blacked out, how...
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the people who rhapsodied about mueller. the man they wanted, the man they thought they were getting, slavishly devoted to department of justice policy. to decorum and has given us a document in keeping with who he is. >> yes. and a document that may turn out to be more important than we think tonight if it does lead to a congressional investigation. and i think it might well be said in writing this document, robert mueller did not anticipate that william barr, whom he's known since the 1990s, at least would precede it with that letter and that press conference trying to in a way undo the work that mueller had done for two years. >> have we -- have we seen the road map of where, do you think this ends up in the house with sub water gate level hearings? hearings that are fact-finding hearings? >> i think that would be the way to go. there are all sorts of open questions raised by the mueller report. and there's been a feeling, i think until now, that the choice is either have impeachment hearings or not. one of congress's sac
the people who rhapsodied about mueller. the man they wanted, the man they thought they were getting, slavishly devoted to department of justice policy. to decorum and has given us a document in keeping with who he is. >> yes. and a document that may turn out to be more important than we think tonight if it does lead to a congressional investigation. and i think it might well be said in writing this document, robert mueller did not anticipate that william barr, whom he's known since the...